A Warrenton, Mo., mother was arrested  and charged with child abuse after police said say she hit her son over the head with a sippy cup and frequently knocked  him to the ground, according to a news report on Tuesday from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Heather R. Baugh, 28, told police that an abrasion to ... read more »

Vastie Coleman, 27, has been charged with injury to a child with serious bodily injury after after severely abusing her 4-year-old son for wetting his pants in the car. According to authorities, Coleman, of Harris County, Texas, whipped her son, Kyron Barnes, with a chord in their apartment on Sunday night. The Daily Mail reports that Coleman put her son in ... read more »

A new study reports that dads suffering from their own version of postpartum depression tend to spank their children more often than non-depressed fathers. According to researchers, 40 percent of the 1,700 new fathers interviewed that indicated depression said that they had spanked their children during the last month. Only 13 percent of fathers that ... read more »

Say it ain’t so! A new study suggests that children who are spanked are more likely to be happier and more successful. Could it be? Children who are disciplined are also disciplined in life too? Or that children do need strict boundaries and perhaps the more humantarian way to provide them with that is a ... read more »